
The Wrong Man(1956)
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.


“It's Sensational!”
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.

David Brian
John Gavin Stevens

Claude Jarman Jr.
Chick Mallison

Juano Hernández
Lucas Beauchamp

Porter Hall
Nub Gowrie

Elizabeth Patterson
Miss Eunice Habersham

Charles Kemper
Crawford Gowrie

Will Geer
Sheriff Hampton

David Clarke
Vinson Gowrie

Elzie Emanuel
Aleck

Lela Bliss
Mrs. Mallison
Intruder in the Dust is a drama, crime, mystery film released in 1949 exploring themes of small town, based on novel or book, mississippi river, falsely accused. Directed by Clarence Brown, it stars David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernández. Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
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